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Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by drusepth »

alexanderdmitri wrote: post #66

As an American kid born along with the digital epoch of the 90s, I'm a bit of an oddity because the only social media I've ever used (& still use) is LinkedIn, which feels like sharing a room with a vipor. I have it set up with a dedicated email address and I only interact w/it in a sandboxed browser on VPN with a dedicated email address. (I guess you could add HN, StackExchange and GitHub to the list since there are…

>Believe me, people don't mind being in touch and coordinating through more direct means, in fact most people respond more genuinely to it.

FWIW, some do. The only reason I signed up for Facebook was to have an asynchronous medium in which people can "contact" me, instead of trying to meet up, call my phone, text me, etc. I use Google+ for sharing photos/updates with my family while I travel, and LinkedIn for recruiter fishing. I use each of the above at least a few times a week, but always out of necessity; I've set a pretty solid standard of "I may take a couple weeks to respond, but I'll always respond" which is so much nicer than being constantly interrupted by people reaching out through direct means.

Email was nice for this originally, but there's way less friction to contacting someone through FB than there is through email, and keeping social messages out of email keeps my inbox more manageable for productive uses without having to set up and maintain filters.

Of course, YMMV. But just remember not everyone likes/minds the same things. :)

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by dhimes »

drusepth wrote: post #121
alexanderdmitri wrote: post #66

As an American kid born along with the digital epoch of the 90s, I'm a bit of an oddity because the only social media I've ever used (& still use) is LinkedIn, which feels like sharing a room with a vipor. I have it set up with a dedicated email address and I only interact w/it in a sandboxed browser on VPN with a dedicated email address. (I guess you could add HN, StackExchange and GitHub to the list since there are…

>Believe me, people don't mind being in touch and coordinating through more direct means, in fact most people respond more genuinely to it. FWIW, some do. The only reason I signed up for Facebook was to have an asynchronous medium in which people can "contact" me, instead of trying to meet up, call my phone, text me, etc. I use Google+ for sharing photos/updates with my family while I travel, and LinkedIn for recruit…

That's pretty much the only thing I don't do on facebook. That and play games.

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by wpietri »

coldtea wrote: post #104

> Most people told us it would never work, but we did it anyway: We started charging 10¢ to post content on our social network. Our users didn’t leave. In fact, they are posting more than ever, and the quality of content has improved. Our experiment seems to be working. People are willing to pay to post content. That is not the only thing we’ve done differently. Our users can submit content with a pay wall, at a loca…

That was definitely my reaction. "People said it would never work! But it's worked for three whole weeks among cryptocurrency users, a group already selected for a) early adopter status, b) credulity, and c) a currency-focused worldview!"

I look forward to seeing how it goes, and I'm always glad that people are getting out and doing the experiments that they find compelling.

But it's very dangerous to confuse novelty with utility. As examples, consider the 90s wave of VR. Or the many waves of 3D photos/movies/TV. Early try-it-out interest among technophiles is proof of novelty, not long-term utility. And especially these days, social networks are, like the human relationships they channel, long-term propositions.

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by nyxtom »

mollusk wrote: post #110
coldtea wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Facebook lets me keep up with cultural (art/music) events, and also local dev meetups. It's 2017. Between aggregators, dedicated sites, instant notifications, apps, Calendar sync et all, we probably have 1000 more ways than every decade in the 20th century to keep up with cultural events and local dev meetups. I don't think 60s', 70s and 80s culture and art events (and event goers) suffered because they didn't have…

It might be more country specific (I don't live in the United States, nor in a metropolis), and specific to the art/music scene and venues I'm interested in, but Facebook really covers most bases for me. And I often discover great events because some Facebook friend is interested in them. Some dev meetups are crossposted to meetup.com or eventbrite.com, but only some, and Facebook aggregates both for me. There's even…

I wouldn't mind any of this about Facebook except for the fact that it is mostly a walled off portion of the internet. Content has a hard time behaving like a normal part of the internet. So to make it work you absolutely have to have an account.

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by Chris2048 »

aaron-lebo wrote: post #101
microcolonel wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's a list of some non-alt-right profiles I tossed a rock and found. In fact, none of the top profiles appear to be alt-right at all. https://www.minds.com/Timcast [Independent journalist who frequently embeds himself in mild to hot political protests and is fairly careful with his words] https://www.minds.com/Styxhexenhammer [Occult author, political/general commentator, plus some more light content] https://www.…

They might not be "alt right", but they're really fascinated by it. Here's Timcast: Propaganda, tribalism, and Ben Shapiro in Berkeley The Alt-Left double standard. What is bit coin and can you still make money by investing? Here's the second user: Pewdiepie did nothing wrong. Anyone acting offended is probably lying through their teeth. The people who know/care about Shapiro are conservative, same goes for those def…

> same goes for those defending a guy who makes jokes about Jews and uses the n-word

Why? Perhaps we should read the article first?

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by ryanmerket »

nyxtom wrote: post #124
mollusk wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It might be more country specific (I don't live in the United States, nor in a metropolis), and specific to the art/music scene and venues I'm interested in, but Facebook really covers most bases for me. And I often discover great events because some Facebook friend is interested in them. Some dev meetups are crossposted to meetup.com or eventbrite.com, but only some, and Facebook aggregates both for me. There's even…

I wouldn't mind any of this about Facebook except for the fact that it is mostly a walled off portion of the internet. Content has a hard time behaving like a normal part of the internet. So to make it work you absolutely have to have an account.

Not totally true. You can invite people via email to your Facebook events.

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by jamespo »

coldtea wrote: post #107
mollusk wrote: post #99

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>And they are not helping your damn social life! First of all, I use Facebook in a similar way (dedicated email, sandboxed browser, external tracking disabled (I know it still tracks me internally), not entirely my real name, no mobile apps, all paranoia privacy settings on, don't really share anything). And I only signed up there a year or two ago. But Facebook absolutely helped my social (and even professional) lif…

> Facebook lets me keep up with cultural (art/music) events, and also local dev meetups. It's 2017. Between aggregators, dedicated sites, instant notifications, apps, Calendar sync et all, we probably have 1000 more ways than every decade in the 20th century to keep up with cultural events and local dev meetups. I don't think 60s', 70s and 80s culture and art events (and event goers) suffered because they didn't have…

But if facebook was around in the 60s onwards what do you think the organizers would be using to publicize the events?

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by vrsep »

microcolonel wrote: post #21

I encourage you all to check out Minds. In my opinion, Minds has a much more interesting compensation model: you can directly send money to creators (feature called Wire) either generally or on a specific post. There is also an internal points system where you are compensated by interactions with your content. If you have enough points, they have a real monetary value. Also, as an added bonus, the website and apps ar…

Search doesn't work well: cannot find woman in area. Only political nonsense.

Re: A Social Network That Costs 10¢ to Post

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Post by coldtea »

jamespo wrote: post #128
coldtea wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Facebook lets me keep up with cultural (art/music) events, and also local dev meetups. It's 2017. Between aggregators, dedicated sites, instant notifications, apps, Calendar sync et all, we probably have 1000 more ways than every decade in the 20th century to keep up with cultural events and local dev meetups. I don't think 60s', 70s and 80s culture and art events (and event goers) suffered because they didn't have…

But if facebook was around in the 60s onwards what do you think the organizers would be using to publicize the events?

They would.

But if Facebook was around in the 60s, there would be no 60s -- the spirit I mean.

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